Abstract: Baduanjin qigong is one of the traditional Chinese exercises, which fitness effect is remarkable, making great development in the field of Chinese medicine. In recent years, the exercise effect of Baduanjin qigong has attracted the attention of nurses, and nurses applied this during nursing. his study discussed and summarized the application status of Baduanjin qigong in the nursing field, containing the application in patients and medical staffs, in order to provide reference for clinical application. On the one hand, Baduanjin qigong applied in the patients is mainly manifested in the following four aspects:firstly, Baduanjin qigong can enhance the overall quality of life and obvious effect quality of sleep for the patients.After doing Baduanjin qigong, patient's scores of quality of life scale improved and sleep quality is also improved. Secondly, this qigong can promote patients' recovery effect, containing those four specific aspects such as the limb rehabilitation, disease rehabilitation, cognitive function and activity function rehabilitation. In addition, Baduanjin qigong can help patients ease the bad feelings such as depression. What's more, this qigong can be used in blood sugar control, prevention of falls and joint pain relief, which effect is also significant. On the other hand, this kind of exercise can be applied in medical staffs, which improve the sub-healthy state of the night nurse, and beneficial medical staffs on the physical and mental health. However, the study about using this exercise in medical staffs is less, which can become the direction of future research. Above all, application of Baduanjin qigong has made significant achievements in the field of nursing, but there are still some shortages. he sample size of most studies is small, which results may be controversial. he object of each study is not identical, and evaluation index is numerous, which is hard to do evidence-based analysis, so it is difficult to evaluate the application effect of Baduanjin qigong systematically, which will become the focus of future research.